[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 82 (Tuesday, April 29, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23219-23220]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-11016]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
[A-475-703]


Granular Polytetrafluoroethylene Resin From Italy; Amended Final 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of Amended Final Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review.

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SUMMARY: On February 6, 1997, the Department of Commerce (the 
Department) published the final results of administrative review of the 
antidumping duty order on granular polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) resin 
from Italy (62 FR 5590). The review covers one manufacturer/exporter, 
Ausimont S.p.A. (Ausimont), for the period August 1, 1994, through July 
31, 1995. Based on the correction of ministerial errors, we have 
changed the margin for Ausimont.

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 29, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Chip Hayes or Richard Rimlinger, 
Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 
DC. 20230; telephone: (202) 482-4733.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The Applicable Statute

    Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the Tariff Act of 
1930, as amended (the Tariff Act), are references to the provisions 
effective January 1, 1995, the effective date of the amendments made to 
the Tariff Act by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act. In addition, unless 
otherwise indicated, all citations to the Department's regulations are 
to the current regulations, as amended by the interim regulations 
published in the Federal Register on May 11, 1995 (60 FR 25130).

Background

    On February 6, 1997, the Department published the final results of 
its administrative review of the antidumping duty order on PTFE resin 
from Italy (62 FR 5590) for one manufacturer/exporter, Ausimont, and 
the period of review (POR) August 1, 1994, through July 31, 1995.
    After publication of our final results, we received timely 
allegations from Ausimont that we had made ministerial errors in 
calculating the final results. Ausimont contends that we applied facts 
available in the calculation of a difference-in-merchandise adjustment 
for sales of one U.S. product, when, according to Ausimont, variable 
cost of manufacturing information for that product was in the 
administrative record to permit a correct calculation of the 
adjustment. E.I. Dupont de Nemours and Co., the petitioner in this 
proceeding, maintains that Ausimont neglected to comment on the use of 
facts available during the course of the administrative review and that 
Ausimont's belated discovery does not constitute a ministerial error on 
the part of the Department.
    Upon examination of the administrative record, we have determined 
that adequate information was in the administrative record to calculate 
the correct difference-in-merchandise adjustment for the product in 
question. Therefore, the use of facts available to determine the 
adjustment for the product does constitute a ministerial error. We have 
corrected our calculations in accordance with section 751(h) of the 
Tariff Act. See analysis memorandum to the file dated March 24, 1997, 
for a detailed description of the changes that we made to correct the 
ministerial errors.

Amended Final Results of Reviews

    As a result of our corrections for ministerial errors, we determine 
that the a weighted-average margin of 15.21 per cent exists for the 
period August 1, 1994, through July 31, 1995.
    The Department shall determine, and the Customs Service shall 
assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries. We will direct 
the Customs Service to collect cash deposits of estimated antidumping 
duties on all appropriate entries in accordance with the procedures 
discussed in the final results of the reviews (62 FR 5590, 5592) and as 
amended by this determination.
    The amended deposit requirements are effective for all shipments of 
the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for 
consumption on or after the date of publication of this notice and 
shall remain in effect until publication of the final results of the 
next administrative reviews.
    This notice also serves as a final reminder to importers of their 
responsibility under 19 CFR 353.26 to file a certificate regarding the 
reimbursement of antidumping duties prior to liquidation of the 
relevant entries during this review period. Failure to comply with this 
requirement could result in the Secretary's presumption that 
reimbursement of

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antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent assessment of double 
antidumping duties.
    This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to 
administrative protective orders (APO) of their responsibility 
concerning the return or destruction of proprietary information 
disclosed under APO in accordance with 19 CFR 353.34(d). Failure to 
comply is a violation of the APO.

    This administrative review and this notice are in accordance 
with section 751(a)(1) of the Tariff Act (19 U.S.C. 1675(a)(1)) and 
19 CFR 353.28.

    Dated April 22, 1997.
Robert S. LaRussa,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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